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| Name | Albion (1842) | Explanation | |
| Type | Second rate | Type | Two-decker |
| Launched (Sail) | 6 September 1842 | Converted to screw | 21 May 1861 |
| Hull | Wooden | Length | 204 feet |
| Propulsion | Sail | Men | 830 |
| Builders measure | 3111 tons | Builders measure (as screw) | 3111 tons |
| Displacement | Displacement (as screw) | 4382 tons | |
| Guns | 90 | Guns (as screw) | 91 |
| Fate | 1884 | Last in commission | - |
| Class | Albion | ||
| Ships book | |||
| Snippets concerning career prior to conversion | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 6 September 1842 | Launched as 2nd rate sailing ship at Plymouth Dockyard. | ||
| 10 November 1843 - 27 February 1847 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain Nicholas Lockyer, flagship of Admiral David Milne, Devonport, then Lisbon, then Channel squadron (until Lockyer died), (also 1844 experimental squadron and 1845 experimental squadron) | ||
| 3 March 1847 - 22 January 1848 | Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain Charles Howe Fremantle, Mediterranean | ||
| 29 May 1850 - 2 July 1852 | Commanded (from commissioning at Plymouth) by Captain William James Hope Johnstone, Mediterranean | ||
| 2 July 1852 - 7 July 1855 | Commanded by Captain Stephen Lushington, Mediterranean (and Black Sea during the Russian War, when he was in command of the Naval Brigade ashore from the beginning of the siege of Sevastopol to 19 July 1854) | ||
| 27 July 1855 - 5 January 1856 | Commanded (until paying off at Plymouth) by Captain James Robert Drummond, Mediterranean | ||
| Career as unarmoured wooden screw vessel | |||
| Date | Event | ||
| 21 May 1861 | Completed as screw at Devonport Dockyard. | ||
| 22 May 1861 | Never fitted for sea as screw ship | ||
| August 1884 | Sold to Castle for breaking up at Charlton. | ||
| Extracts from the Times newspaper | |||
| Date | Extract | ||
| (various) | this gets replaced | ||
| (various) | this gets replaced | ||
| (various) | this gets replaced | ||
| Tu 25 December 1855 | Her Majesty's ship Albion, 90, Captain the Hon. James R. Drummond, which arrived at Plymouth on Saturday afternoon, left Gibraltar on the 20th of November. She encountered strong easterly winds all the passage, and was within a short distance of the port for five days previous to entering. All the supernumerary officers and men who assisted to navigate the Hibernia from Plymouth to Malta have returned by her. The Albion has a full complement of seamen, but no marines, they having landed on the Crimea and formed part of the marine battalion against Sebastopol. She is in a tolerably effective state, and after discharging her ammunition will go into Hamoaze. The Albion was put in commission in May, 1850. Her present captain has been five months in command. | ||
| Su 1 January 1860 | The Albion, 90, Captain the Hon. J. R. Drummond, was towed from Plymouth Sound into Hamoaze on Thursday by the Confiance and Zephyr steam vessels. Her crew are to be paid off, she having been in commission. upwards of five years. | ||
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